Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Parboiled Modern Rice Mill

Our mill is located over on Lingagiri Road, right at Door No. 14-39 in Huzurnagar. It’s a busy place, especially when the harvest comes in. We call it Sri Satyanarayana Swamy Parboiled Modern Rice Mill, which is a bit of a mouthful, but it describes exactly what happens here. The modern part of the name comes from the machinery we installed a few years back, though the building itself feels much older. There is always a low hum in the air from the boilers and the hullers. Parboiling is a messy process with plenty of steam and water involved, so the floors are rarely completely dry. We spend a lot of our time monitoring the temperature and making sure the grains are drying evenly. It’s a noisy environment, so we’ve all learned to speak a bit louder than usual. Farmers bring their loads in on tractors, and there’s often a bit of a queue out on the road. We try to get through the work as fast as we can without rushing the process too much. The dust gets everywhere, even into the pockets of our shirts, but you get used to it after a week. We don’t have a fancy office for meetings; we usually just talk out by the loading bay. It’s practical work that requires us to be on our feet all day, but seeing the finished white rice come out the other end is always a good feeling.